The Gambling Impact and Behavior Study investigates the
gambling behavior and attitudes of adults and youth in America, and
also estimates the effects of gambling facilities on a variety of
local economic and social indicators. Respondents were randomly
selected by a national random-digit dial (RDD) through a stratified
design by state lottery status and distances to major casino. The
study includes three independent, unlinkable data files. The adult and
youth questionnaire (Parts 1 and 2) cover... (more info)

The Gambling Impact and Behavior Study investigates the
gambling behavior and attitudes of adults and youth in America, and
also estimates the effects of gambling facilities on a variety of
local economic and social indicators. Respondents were randomly
selected by a national random-digit dial (RDD) through a stratified
design by state lottery status and distances to major casino. The
study includes three independent, unlinkable data files. The adult and
youth questionnaire (Parts 1 and 2) covered areas such as demographic
information, geographic region, gambling behavior and attitudes,
motivations for gambling, gambling history, a problem-gambling
diagnostic assessment, gambling treatment experience, family/marital
status and issues, income and financial information, criminal
activity, mental and general health, and substance use. Areas of
substance abuse examined were the use of alcohol, marijuana, hashish,
cocaine, crack, methamphetamine, stimulants, tranquilizers,
amphetamines, and speed. The Community Database (Part 3) included the
following: geographic locators (latitude, longitude), availability of
gaming facilities, gaming spending estimates, employment patterns by
industry, unemployment, bankruptcy, personal income, private and
public earnings, government expenditures, income maintenance/AFDC, and
vital statistics.

Universe:
The universe consists of the civilian household population
of the United States aged 16 and older. The telephone subuniverse
consisted of those living in households with at least one working
telephone line. The universe for the community database is biased
toward smaller census designated places with populations of 10,000 or
more.

Data Types:
administrative records data,
medical records,
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

Data were collected and prepared for release by
the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of
Chicago.

Three survey
methodologies were used for the adult sample. Telephone interviews
were conducted for all but 14 respondents who chose to participate via
mail-in questionnaire. Face-to-face interviews were conducted for
adult patrons of gambling facilities. The in-person and mail-in
questionnaires contained most, but not all, of the questions from the
telephone interview.

The youth questionnaire is identical to the
telephone survey administered to adults with one exception. Section D
(the Diagnostic Screen for gambling disorders) was administered to all
youths who reported any lifetime gambling behavior, rather than, as
with adults, only that subset of gamblers who reported dollar losses
above certain limits.

The data for the community database includes
two variables for latitude and longitude (INTPTLAT and INTPTLNG) which
will produce a warning when used in SPSS due to their lengths.

In
reporting on gambling activities, respondents were asked to include
gambling within the United States, District of Columbia, and Puerto
Rico, and to exclude gambling in other territories, on ships, cruises,
or ferries, as well as other venues on international waters.

Methodology

Sample:
The sample for the adult telephone interviews was derived
using a national random-digit dial (RDD) design stratified by state
lottery status, and distances to a major casino. The distribution of
age and sex of the respondent was controlled using the
Troldahl-Carter-Bryant method. For the adult patron survey, a random
sample of gambling facilities was drawn from two western states, three
Mississippi River states, and three northeastern states. An average of
25 interviews per facility at 21 facilities was achieved. The youth
sample was drawn from two lists of telephone numbers: List 1 consisted
of 5,000 targeted households with youths aged 12-17, while List 2
consisted of 32,000 RDD numbers targeted at all households. The youth
sample was also stratified by state lottery status. The community
database consisted of 100 communities, which were selected using a
simple random sampling without replacement procedure, from among
"designated places" as defined by the United States Census Bureau,
with populations of 10,000 or more. The community database contains
information on the years 1980-1996. The community sample was
stratified by distance to major casino and presence of legal
gambling.

Data Source:

telephone interviews, personal interviews,
self-administered questionnaires, interview-administered
questionnaire, and selected data from the following sources: Regional
Economic Indicator Series (REIS), City and County Data Book, FBI
Uniform Crime Reports, and the NCHS Vital and Health Statistics
series

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Created online analysis version with question text.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:2002-02-15

Version History:

2007-08-28 Stata setup, Stata system, and Stata
supplemental files have been added. This process affected some column
locations, as a result, codebooks were updated to reflect correct new
column locations. Also four variables were recoded on part number 3 to
remove non-integer value labels so that Stata system files could be
produced.

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to
one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as
well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS
portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised
2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.